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"This sleepy little town whose only attraction at the moment is their newly reconstructed Shiroishi Castle. It is just 15 minutes walk from JR Shiroishi Station.
There is no museum in the castle, unlike other reconstructed ones. Just a pure, no gimmicks Japanese Jo, wood and white plaster. I went o..."n 22 Apr 2012, the castle did not escape the wrath of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. There were visible cracks on the surface of the castle walls, especially the upper most donjon. The view from the castle top was great, but for me, Matsumoto Castle has yet to be beaten.
The area was quiet without the usual hanami make merry crowd. Thus I had the whole place to myself, serenity, peace and yes, the beautiful sakura. I was in time for the full bloom.
If you love Sakura as much as I do, after this you may proceed to Oogawara Station. Just 15 minutes of train ride and you will get to the famous Sakura spot, 一目千本桜。
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"This re-built castle is well worth a visit if you happen to be in Shiroishi. It is currently under repair but is still quite awesome just from the grounds. The history of the area is rich and embodied well at this castle."

"We had some time to spend in Shiroishi and opted to tour this stunning castle seated a top the town hillside. Grounds and building are exquisite. Tour guides are present but not pushy. Castle is exquisite and allows for a panoramic view of the city from upper floors.Visitors can also try on period J..."apanese apparel of formal Kimono for the women and Samauri for the men. Admission price is cheap and worth the trip.
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"Miyagi Zao Fox Village (Miyagi Zao Kitsunemura) is an animal attraction where visitors can get a very up-close look at foxes. The animals there are very charming and very cute.
The main area of Zao Fox Village consists of a plot of forest land surrounded by a chain-link fence about 3 meters hi..."gh. Within that area are a number of roofed walkways, numerous small shelters for the foxes, a platform shelter from where visitors can feed the foxes, and even a Shinto shrine. Within this main area, the foxes are free to roam. Surrounding the main area, there are a number of smaller pens and cages. The foxes in these pens and cages have much less freedom of movement, some almost none.
The foxes appear to spend most of the daylight hours napping. On the occasion when I approached a sleeping fox, it would at first be startled, raise its head to check me out, and then go back to sleep. These foxes are obviously accustomed to the close presence of humans.
There is a feeding plat...
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"I'm not sure what all the negative reviews were about??
Found it clean and the foxes were not Hungary.
Normal for fox's to fight over food. Not that we saw that.
There are around 100 fox's roaming a large area and some kept in cages with babies.
You can hold a baby for 300yen.
You can't touch th..."e adults and are told not to feed them in the general area. There is a feeding platform to use.
Most are relaxed and you can get up close to take photos. Some will even sit next to you if they know you have food.
Getting there to the park by public transport would be expensive as you need to take a lengthy taxi ride and Japanese taxi's are fairly expensive.
We chose to hire a car in Sendai from "Times" rent a car.
At 7500yen plus 1800yen on toll roads it was worth it.
Tie it in with some other parks in the area and it's a good day.
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"The place was better than I expected. It's not like a zoo where you see animals that have clearly given up on life. Most of the foxes live together in a large enclosure. Yes, they fight for their food and some of them are missing an ear or a tooth but have you seen foxes in the wild? They are as clo..."se to the real thing as it gets. Their young, who live in a separate enclosure nearby are a different story and so are the arctic foxes that live in cages. THOSE are pretty sad to see but overall the experience was quite nice. Try visiting in the winter, they look lovely with their thick fur, rolling on snow.
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"Welcome to the complexity of human experience. Zao Village was a lot larger and significantly less sad than I thought... And also offers unbridled contact with nature that few places can ever offer as you literally walk amongst (and feed) the foxes in an open space. You can even hold a baby fox arou..."nd 3pm each day. Love foxes? Love animals? Love photography? Go here! Do it! This place is a great spot for Japanese families to bring their kids and also for tourists to get their cute fix. Sound crass? So much of being human is about the gray area... Who's to say no good comes of this or whether it ought or ought not be done?
OK--so I'm not an idiot and I do have mixed feelings about animals in captivity (dependent on many factors like the species/breed of animal, its intelligence, its dependence on humans, conditions of its environment, etc), and I can see why this place is polarizing, but I don't think this is a "blackfish" situation. It would seem that the majority of the foxes are in ...
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